- London, England, United Kingdom
Maria Bach
The American University of Paris (AUP), Economics, Faculty Member
- King's College London, European and International Studies, Graduate Studentadd
- History of Economic Thought, History of Economics, International Political Economy, Political Economy and History, Political Economy of Development, Development Economics, History of India, Classical Political Economy, Classical economics, Marxist theory, and 4 moreAdam Smith, John Stuart Mill, Mill, James, and History of Scienceedit
- I am an Economics Lecturer at the American University of Paris, while finishing my PhD at King's College London in the History of Economic Thought and International Political Economy.
My project analyses how Indian Political Economists constructed an idea of development at the turn of the 19th century (1870-1905).
Development economist by training.edit
What laws determine progress? An Indian contribution to the idea of progress based on Mahadev Govind Ranade's works, 1870-1901 Development was conceptualised in the early 1900s to explain how society harnesses the positive forces of... more
What laws determine progress? An Indian contribution to the idea of progress based on Mahadev Govind Ranade's works, 1870-1901 Development was conceptualised in the early 1900s to explain how society harnesses the positive forces of progress. Half a century later, the school of 'Indian Political Economy' was founded to conceptualise and theorise India's extreme poverty and deindustrialisation. This paper examines how Mahadev Govind Ranade (the school's founder) conceptualised progress. By historicising Ranade's concept of progress, the paper traces its origins and evaluates how it was conceptualised to reconcile theory with India's reality. Ranade identified specific Indian determinants of progress, including a centrifugal nature of Indian politics, denaturalising the territorial division of labour, and a dependent colonial economy.
